Abstract: A crimping determination device according to an embodiment includes a dropping unit, an image acquisition unit, and a control unit. The dropping unit drops a test solution to a wire harness. The wire harness includes a crimped portion in which an electric wire is crimped by a crimping terminal, a first electric wire portion in which the electric wire is exposed on a distal end side, and a second electric wire portion in which the electric wire is exposed on a proximal end side. The dropping unit drops the test solution to either one of the first electric wire portion and the second electric wire portion. The image acquisition unit acquires an image including the other one of the first electric wire portion and the second electric wire portion. The control unit determines a quality of a crimped state of the crimped portion based on the image.

Abstract: A processor repeatedly collects integrated management information related to a storage apparatus and including performance data indicating an operation status of the storage apparatus that stores data, and stores the performance data in an performance data temporary storage area. In addition, the processor analyzes the integrated management information, and determines the importance level indicating the degree of the influence of the performance data stored in the performance data temporary storage area on the analysis process of analyzing the performance data. The processor migrates the performance data stored in the performance data temporary storage area to one of the plurality of long-term storage areas having different characteristics based on the importance level.

Abstract: An input device includes a top panel having an operation surface, a detection unit configured to detect a capacitance corresponding to a distance between the operation surface and an object, and a controller configured to determine, based on a detection result from the detection unit, a relative state between the operation surface and the object to be one out of a non-detection state and a plurality of states. The controller measures, for each of the plurality of states, a duration in which the capacitance is greater than or equal to a corresponding one of capacitance thresholds set for the plurality of states, and determines, using the durations and the time thresholds and capacitance thresholds set for the plurality of states, the relative state to be one out of the non-detection state and the plurality of states.

Abstract: An exemplary information processing system generates an assembled object by assembling a plurality of virtual objects based on an input by a user. The plurality of virtual objects include virtual power objects each configured to provide power to the assembled object and a virtual controller object. While the virtual power object and the virtual controller object are included in the assembled object, the information processing system causes the one or more virtual power objects to operate to move the assembled object in a predetermined traveling direction, and causes a moving direction of the movable object to change based on an input by the user.

Abstract: Provided is a low-odor polymer which is soluble in a solvent and with which a work environment load can be reduced. In addition, provided are a curable composition using the polymer and a cured product of the curable composition. The vinyl-based polymer of the present invention comprises a terminal structure derived from one or more of 3- to 20-mer of a (meth)acrylic monomer, wherein an acid value is 35 to 300 mgKOH/g.

Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition includes main component grains having a perovskite structure represented by a formula AMO3. “A” includes Ba. “M” includes Ti. The dielectric ceramic composition includes a 4A subcomponent. The 4A subcomponent includes Fe and Mn. A molar ratio of Mn to a total of Fe and Mn in terms of a metal element is 0.18 to 0.65.

Abstract: A chip discharging flute is formed in a tip outer peripheral portion of a drill body rotated around an axis in a drill rotation direction. A cutting edge is formed in an intersection ridgeline portion between a wall surface of the chip discharging flute facing the drill rotation direction and a tip flank. The cutting edge includes a main cutting edge portion extending from an inner peripheral side toward an outer peripheral side of the drill body, and a cutting edge shoulder portion extending from an outer peripheral end of the main cutting edge portion to an outer periphery of the drill body, and is subjected to honing. Compared to the outer peripheral end of the main cutting edge portion, in an outer peripheral end of the cutting edge shoulder portion, a true rake angle is increased on a negative rake angle side, and a size of the honing decreases.

Abstract: To accurately estimate deterioration of a product in which contents is held in a metal container. The deterioration estimate system comprises: a predictive model 3 trained mechanically by a training data 1 collected through storage tests of the product; an inputter 5 transmitting data to estimate deterioration; and a transmitter 4 that transmitting a degree of the deterioration of the product computed by the predictive model 3 based on the data transmitted from the inputter 5. The training data 1 includes: data relating to the metal container of the product; data relating to the contents contained in the metal container; data relating to an environment where the product has been stored; and data relating to the degree of the deterioration of the product.

Abstract: An information provision system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the information provision system to perform operations. The operations include: acquiring position information of a user and line-of-sight direction information of the user; estimating a target visually recognized by the user based on the position information, the line-of-sight direction information, and target position information for targets visually recognizable by the user; outputting, by sound, description information about the target in accordance with a setting; detecting a motion of a head of the user; estimating an intention of the user based on the motion during output of the description information; selecting the setting in accordance with the intention; and outputting, in response to change of the setting, the description information in accordance with the setting after the change.

Abstract: A display control method used for a control system that controls a behavior of a host-vehicle to perform an automatic lane change includes, when the control system proposes to a driver to perform the automatic lane change, displaying a second character string that includes at least a first character string that proposes the automatic lane change to the driver on a meter display provided to a meter unit that displays a meter of the host-vehicle. The first character string indicates contents for urging an operation of the automatic lane change, and the second character string includes the first character string and a third character string indicating a reason why the first character string is notified.

Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition includes main component grains having a perovskite structure represented by a formula AMO3. “A” includes Ba. “M” includes Ti. D50 of the main component grains is 960 nm or less. D90 of the main component grains is 1460 nm or less.

Abstract: An optical cable includes optical fiber units each of which includes intermittently-coupled optical fiber ribbons. In at least one of the optical fiber units, in a cross section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the at least one of the optical fiber units, a length of a vector GU is shorter than a largest length of vectors MG of the intermittently-coupled optical fiber ribbons forming the at least one of the optical fiber units, where, in each of the intermittently-coupled optical fiber ribbons, each of the vectors MG is a vector starting from M and ending at G, M is a midpoint between optical fibers at both ends of the each of the intermittently-coupled optical fiber ribbons, and G is a center of gravity of the each of the intermittently-coupled optical fiber ribbons, and the vector GU is a resultant vector of the vectors MG.

Abstract: A tube unit includes multiple tubes, a bundling portion that bundles end portions of the tubes, and pipe elements that are inserted into respective end portions of the tubes and support the end portions of the tubes from inside. A degassing module includes the tube unit and a housing in which the tube unit is accommodated and that separates inside spaces inside the respective tubes from an outside space outside the tubes. In addition, each tube is a tubular membrane that allows gas to pass therethrough and prohibits liquid from passing therethrough. The housing has an inside-space opening that is in communication with the inside spaces of the tubes and an outside-space opening that is in communication with the outside space of the tubes.

Abstract: A lead alloy is described that is capable of manufacturing a positive electrode for a lead storage battery with a reduced likelihood of causing growth. The lead alloy contains 0.4% by mass or more and 2% by mass or less of tin and 0.004% by mass or less of bismuth, with the balance being lead and inevitable impurities. The diffraction intensity of a Cube orientation {001} <100> in a pole figure created by analyzing the surface of the lead alloy by an X-ray diffraction method is 4 times or less the diffraction intensity of a random orientation in a pole figure created by analyzing a pure lead powder by the X-ray diffraction method.

Abstract: A DC-DC converter that converts a DC input voltage supplied from a DC power supply and that outputs a DC voltage with a different potential is shown. The DC-DC converter includes the following. A control circuit controls a switching element in accordance with a potential difference between a feedback voltage proportional to an output voltage and a predetermined reference voltage. A current supply circuit that causes a predetermined current to flow. A voltage correction circuit that corrects the reference voltage or the feedback voltage. The voltage correction circuit is configured to determine a voltage correction amount, based on information about a resistance on a load side input from outside when a current of the current supply circuit is output, and correct the reference voltage or the feedback voltage.

Abstract: An electricity storage block includes: an element stacked body in which a plurality of square electricity storage elements is stacked and arranged such that wide surfaces of the adjacent square electricity storage elements are opposed to each other; and a pressing device that presses the element stacked body toward the thermally-conductive sheet arranged on the heat transfer plate. The element stacked body includes holders having wide surface abutment parts in abutment with one of the wide surfaces in a pair in at least the predetermined square electricity storage element. The outer surfaces of the bottom plates of the square electricity storage elements are set as heat transfer surfaces thermally connected to the heat transfer plate via the thermally-conductive sheet. The heat-transfer surfaces protrude toward the heat transfer plate more than the end surfaces of the wide surface abutment parts at the heat transfer plate side.

Abstract: A lead alloy is described that is capable of manufacturing a positive electrode for a lead storage battery less likely to cause corrosion penetrating through a lead layer for the positive electrode in the thickness direction. The lead alloy contains 0.4% by mass or more and 2% by mass less of tin and 0.004% by mass or less of bismuth, with the balance being lead and inevitable impurities. When image analysis of a crystal orientation distribution map created by analyzing the surface of the lead alloy by an electron backscatter diffraction method is performed, intersection points of misorientation boundaries between crystal grains with a crystal misorientation of 5° or more and a straight line extending in one specific direction are extracted. The distances between two adjacent intersection points among the extracted intersection points are measured, and the average value of the distances is 50 ?m or less.

Abstract: A drug solution injection needle includes: a distal end member being a sharp member and made of metal; a connecting tube having electrical insulating properties connected to a base end side of the distal end member; a metal tube connected to a base end side of the connecting tube; and an insulating layer covering an outer circumferential surface of a base end portion of the metal tube. The connecting tube and/or the distal end member includes at least one hole communicating with a cavity of the drug solution injection needle and open to an outer surface of the connecting tube or the distal end member, and an electrode configured to measure electric potential is formed by a distal end portion of the metal tube not covered by the insulating layer.

Abstract: A control apparatus provided in a lens apparatus controls a plurality of optical systems each including an aperture diaphragm which is variable in aperture diameter. A lens control unit sets driving amount information regarding the respective driving amounts of the aperture diaphragms, and sets driving speed of each of the aperture diaphragms based on the driving amount information. The lens control unit determines the driving speeds of the respective aperture diaphragms such that driving times of the aperture diaphragms of the plurality of optical systems match each other.

Abstract: A flexible flywheel includes: a shaft fastening portion fixed to an end portion of an engine crankshaft; an annular inertia ring provided around the shaft fastening portion; a plurality of elastic spoke portions that extend in the radial direction between the shaft fastening portion and the inertia ring and connect the shaft fastening portion and the inertia ring to each other, and that absorb vibration acting on the crankshaft by undergoing deflection; and weight portions provided between adjacent elastic spoke portions, side edge-side boundary ends, to which boundaries with the weight portions are connected, are provided on both sides edges of the elastic spoke portion, respectively, when the elastic spoke portions are vibrated, stress concentrates on the side edge-side boundary ends.